The following computer-generated description may contain errors and does not represent the quality of the book:Andeew MacDonald sold the top crop, the final picking of his years cotton in Cottonville, Mississippi, at nine oclock. He stopped at the Cotton Planters Bank to deposit the check he received for it, sixty thousand dollars, and caught the teno clock train for New Orleans. MacDonald, when he started for the little river town at sunup, had no thought of selling his cotton that day, nor the remotest intention of going to New Orleans. He had heard that cotton might touch new high levels at fifty cents. He closed out the last bale he had with the first buyer hemet for seventy cents a pound. Without even a handbag the planter boarded the south-bound train.